Editor-in-Chief: Pete Georgis
Managing Editor: Conor Leonard
Executive Comments Editor: Daniel Blom
Executive Research Editor: Brian Casido
Ninth Circuit Survey Editor: Caitlin Emmett
Executive Articles Editor: Tyler Smith

Begun in 1969 as a non-traditional legal publication presenting the results of legally-focused public interest projects, today the Golden Gate University Law Review is a general interest legal journal. The Golden Gate University Law Review publishes scholarly writing on a broad range of legal topics, including constitutional law, criminal procedure, immigration law, contract law, and administrative law. Each edition of the Golden Gate University Law Review contains Case Notes, Comments, Articles, and Case Summaries covering cutting-edge legal topics written by judges, students, professors, and legal practitioners from across California and around the world.

The Golden Gate University Law Review is published by students of the Golden Gate University School of Law in three issues each year. Views expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies or opinions of the Golden Gate University Law Review or the Golden Gate University School of Law.

Please direct journal subscriptions or inquiries to:
Golden Gate University Law Review
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-2968
Phone: 415-442-6690
Email: lawreview@ggu.edu

The Golden Gate University Law Review is available on our Digital Commons.

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Approximately forty second-year and third-year students staff the Golden Gate University Law Review each year. Membership in the Law Review is among the highest honors and responsibilities that a student can receive during their law school career. Membership in the Law Review provides students with an opportunity to develop their skills in legal research, writing, and analysis.

Membership on the Law Review is by invitation. Students become eligible to join the Law Review after completing the twenty-nine units of the required first-year classes. Typically this means that full-time students are eligible for membership after completing their first year and part-time students are eligible after completing their second year.

Early in the summer, invitations to join Law Review will be offered to those students identified by the Office of the Registrar as being in the top 10% of their class.

In addition, invitations to join Law Review will be extended on the basis of a student's performance in a write-on competition conducted during the Spring Semester. In addition to superior performance in the competition, write-on candidates must meet a minimum academic requirement of a class ranking within the top 35% of the student's class. Writing and Research II grades will also be considered.

Law Review is a two-year commitment. Members earn six academic credits total. Two units are awarded for the Fall semester and one unit for the Spring semester each year.

In their first year on Law Review students write a Casenote or Comment for potential publication. Students spend the summer after their first year and the fall semester of their second year researching and writing their topic. The spring semester is devoted to production: revising final drafts and cite checking articles in preparation for publication.

The requirements for members in their second year on Law Review are predominantly editorial. As an Associate Editor or member of the Editorial Board, students are responsible for mentoring first-year writers, editing student works, and selecting and editing outside authors' manuscripts for publication in the Law Review.

The Golden Gate University Law Review welcomes the submission of outside articles. Authors submitting manuscripts must conform to the following guidelines:

• Submit a cover letter containing the article's title, author's name, address, affiliation, phone number and email contact information.
• Include CV.
• Submit manuscript as an attachment in MS Word format.

The Golden Gate Law Review accepts both electronic and hard copy submissions. Manuscripts may be submitted as follows:

• Please mail hard copy submissions to the following address:

Golden Gate University Law Review
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-2968
ATTN: Outside Articles Editor

• Please email electronic submissions to the following email address: lawreview@ggu.edu
• Alternatively, manuscripts may be submitted electronically through ExpressO, the online law review delivery service.

Please note: Golden Gate Law Review does not publish articles by students from other law schools.

The Golden Gate University Law Review is published in three issues throughout the year by students of the Golden Gate University School of Law. Two general issues provide a forum to publish scholarly legal writing on a variety of current legal topics. These issues contain lead articles written by academics and professionals, as well as student notes and comments. The third issue, the Ninth Circuit Survey is a special annual survey of significant cases decided in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Business and editorial offices are located at 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105. Subscription price rate for a volume of the Law Review is $35.00. The subscription rates for single issues are $15.00 for each journal. International shipping carries an additional $7.00 charge. Subscriptions are renewed automatically unless a cancellation is received 30 days before publication. Back issues may be ordered directly from William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1285 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14209-1987. Orders may also be placed by calling Hein at (800)828-7571, via fax at (716)883-8100, or email to order@wshein.com. Back issues can also be found in electronic format for all your research needs on HeinOnline. Claims for issues not received must be filed within six months of publication or they will not be honored without charge.

Notification of change of address must be received one month in advance of publication to ensure prompt delivery. Notification should include both the old and new address and zip codes.

The Golden Gate University Ninth Circuit Survey is the only law review in the nation dedicated to cases and questions decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The decisions of the nation's largest and most widely watched court of appeals regularly lend themselves to scholarly review and discussion. Whether holding that local governments are not preempted from enacting universal health care or that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First Amendment, the Ninth Circuit regularly attracts national attention and leads the way on modern legal controversies.

The Ninth Circuit Survey provides a forum to analyze and evaluate significant cases decided by the Ninth Circuit during the previous year prior. Each case selected for inclusion in the Ninth Circuit Survey is examined in a Casenote that allows readers to quickly grasp the essential legal question at issue and provides detailed citations to inform an in-depth discussion or to facilitate further research.